Hi everyone, I have completed a ASP.NET webpage using VS2005 and .NET 2.0, we have used an Oracle 10g Release 2 database back-end, and utilized the Oracle Developer Tools for .NET and ADO to communicate between the web forms and the database.

The next step is to install/implement this system on a client resource, and i was wondering if people out there could lend me some information in doing so.

I dont know that much about the implementation side of things, but what i have tinkered with on my own machine, was attempting to use MS IIS to server the ASP.NET page, i managed to do this on a already set up web page server, i think it was the default created by IIS on installation. I created a virtual directory within the webpage server, pointed it to my system, and that was about as much detail as i went into before i was clicking things that i wasnt sure about.

Now this server worked on my localhost HTTP port 80. But the SQL Server database login that was being used for testing purposes didnt connect, i never managed to get as far as to test if the server connected with oracle, but i assumed i would have similar problems..

My question is:

1. Is there a STEP by STEP tutorial on how to install a new ASP server, using whatever, which would also tell me what i would need to do to connect to oracle, or some other type of DBMS?
   
2. If there isnt, could some1 out there give me a summary of steps i would need to sorta of follow, or that i could look up some detailed information on how to do...

No, and not really.  You are looking for a lot of disparate information.  Configuring IIS is one piece, configuring network accounts and connections between the web server and database server is a second and configuring your app and ASP.NET is a third.  That's about a half dozen book topics right there.  You probably know some of the pieces and wouldn't need to learn them, but nobodyy out here knows what those pieces are.

So break it into parts.  Configure IIS to server a Hello World app.  Sites like www.iis.net, iis-resources.com and iisfaq.com can help.  Then configure your network and appropriate Windows/network/Domain permissions, along with your DNS and whatever other network resources you need.  Google can find you a loft of information, or there are plenty of Windows networking and Windows adminsitration books out there.  Then configure the Oracle database and your network connection to it.

Above all, don't tell us that you are trying to make this work and ask us to provide all possible permutations of any conceivable issue you will run into.  Ask a specific question so you can get a concise and specific answer.

Jeff